I doubt it. He had one good year so he is still really high on himself. He is going to want more than he is worth. The Giants spent a lot of money on him after that good year so they will want more than he is worth as well.

No Brandon Jacobs, headache... Do what we need to do to get Lynch here... The Bills must be asking a ton for him, but with Spiller, Jackson, and Lynch, they need help everywhere else, they should be looking to upgrade their team..

No Brandon Jacobs, headache... Do what we need to do to get Lynch here... The Bills must be asking a ton for him, but with Spiller, Jackson, and Lynch, they need help everywhere else, they should be looking to upgrade their team..

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were you that impressed with him yesterday? That whole game changing 3.8 yrds per carry.

Why do people seem to think Jacobs has worse character issues than Lynch? At least I can understand Jacobs when he talks. I need subtitles when they interview Lynch.

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Lol i agree with you with lynch speaking. Jacobs is a competitor. He threw his helmet so what. I doubt he intended to throw it at some one in the stands. I would rather have him then lynch. He is a rare player with that size and speed.

This is a joke, right? Jacobs was really good when he had that DOMINANT OL. Do we have one of those? Nops.

He's too slow to hit the hole, he needs time. Yes, he's hard to bring down, but he's the most one-dimensional back in football. When he's there, you know that he's going to run, and run through the middle. He can't do anything else. He can't even block right.

This is a joke, right? Jacobs was really good when he had that DOMINANT OL. Do we have one of those? Nops.

He's too slow to hit the hole, he needs time. Yes, he's hard to bring down, but he's the most one-dimensional back in football. When he's there, you know that he's going to run, and run through the middle. He can't do anything else. He can't even block right.

Jacobs would be a downgrade over anything we have right now.

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This.

Ted shouldn't even be considering it. I want no part of Brandon Jacobs.

If this was Ahmad Bradshaw I'd be singing a different tune, but Jacobs is worse than what we have now.

I posted this in the Marshawn Lynch thread, but it bears repeating over here- The Colts were DEAD LAST in the league in rushing last season and only managed to win 14 games and go to the Super Bowl. The Chargers were second to last and went to the divisional round of the playoffs. NFL Stats: by Team Category

We don't need to have a top running game to win. We need a good enough run game to take some pressure off the passing game every so often. I believe we have that with the personnel we currently have on our roster. I think it's time to put all this trade talk to rest now.

I posted this in the Marshawn Lynch thread, but it bears repeating over here- The Colts were DEAD LAST in the league in rushing last season and only managed to win 14 games and go to the Super Bowl. The Chargers were second to last and went to the divisional round of the playoffs. NFL Stats: by Team Category

We don't need to have a top running game to win. We need a good enough run game to take some pressure off the passing game every so often. I believe we have that with the personnel we currently have on our roster. I think it's time to put all this trade talk to rest now.

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Smart fans realize this but the dumb ones scream for us to trade a couple draft picks for a bum

I posted this in the Marshawn Lynch thread, but it bears repeating over here- The Colts were DEAD LAST in the league in rushing last season and only managed to win 14 games and go to the Super Bowl. The Chargers were second to last and went to the divisional round of the playoffs. NFL Stats: by Team Category

We don't need to have a top running game to win. We need a good enough run game to take some pressure off the passing game every so often. I believe we have that with the personnel we currently have on our roster. I think it's time to put all this trade talk to rest now.

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And they got beat. By the #6 team.

I don't think you can say that just because the Colts did it we don't have to have a running game. Better is always better, and we'll be better if we have a running game to take pressure off of Aaron.

I don't think you can say that just because the Colts did it we don't have to have a running game. Better is always better, and we'll be better if we have a running game to take pressure off of Aaron.

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Yup, but they beat the #1 rushing team in the AFCCG to get there, so it doesn't mean a goddamn thing to say they got beat in the Super Bowl because they had the leagues worst rushing game.

I agree better is better. Obviously, the more weapons you have, the better you are. That said, I'm not sure trading a starter PLUS draft picks for Lynch or Jacobs is really going to make us that much better than we already are now. I just don't see a big enough upside compared to what we already have on our roster. Jackson had hardly any carries, certainly not enough to establish any kind of rhythm.

If we get Lynch, fine. I'm not gonna bitch about it. I just don't think we need to sell our souls to get him.

I don't think you can say that just because the Colts did it we don't have to have a running game. Better is always better, and we'll be better if we have a running game to take pressure off of Aaron.

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The Saints rushed for a combined 51 yards, with a 2.8 YPC average in that game. Meanwhile, Brees threw for 288 yards, 2 tds, completing an absurd 32 of 39 passes, for a 115.7 rating.

Let's not pretend that the Saints won that because of their running game, because that's a blalant LIE. Their running game, by those standards, was AWFUL in the SB. AWFUL. It doesn't matter if they were #6 in the season, they couldn't run against the very good Colts D. But the Colts couldn't stop Brees.

The play action fake was very effective for the Packers, especially in the third quarter on back-to-back plays. On second-and-3 (very easily a running down), Rodgers faked run and found Jordy Nelson wide open for a 15-yard gain and a first down. On the very next play on first-and-10 (another running down), Rodgers again used the play action on a rollout and found Finley making is way across the middle from the far side of the field for a 22-yard gain.

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The run game can average 2 yards per carry and I would consider it a smashing success if play-action passing yeilds 10-15 yards. The run game basically exists in this offense to generate effective play action passing. Needs to be taken into consideration when evaluating running back effectivness.

I doubt it. He had one good year so he is still really high on himself. He is going to want more than he is worth. The Giants spent a lot of money on him after that good year so they will want more than he is worth as well.

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I agree, I want no part in Jacobs. He's really overrated. Personally I'd like Lynch over any of the purported RB's out there on the market.

What happens when you have two great passing offenses going at it? Either one defense creates turnovers to win the game or one team runs the ball well enough to keep the opposing team's offense off the field.

The Super Bowl reference to the Saints vs Colts falls under the first category. The Saints defense created enough turnovers to end the Colts. The Packers playoff game against the Cardinals would be a mix of each of them. While we gave up 3 turnovers, the Cardinals were still able to run the ball for 156 yards on 23 carries to keep our defense honest and the clock ticking.

I'm not going to talk up Brandon Jacobs because 1. I don't think he's enough of an improvement to break the bank on, (3 years left on a 4 year, 25 million contract). 2. Giants don't look interested in dealing him. 3. He is not a long-term solution or short-term solution to the RB position (Grant is only out for one year).

What I also won't do, however, is talk up the Bills defense to dumb down the inefficiency of Brandon Jackson and our RB crew from Sunday's game. They have a solid secondary that creates turnovers... Besides that, they have an injury-depleted linebacking corp and no real pass rush. (When was the last season game the packers didn't give up a single sack?)